If I could find my camera, I'd take a picture of my kitchen table for you.

If you were up to your elbows in it, you wouldn't want any, either. Yesterday I worked on the tamales and finished up the peppermint patties, made the coconut patties, started the fudge and crossed my fingers.

This morning I finished the tamales -- key word there is 'finished'....they're ALL DONE!!!!

I have no idea how many I made, but....day-um.

And I finished the fudge and made another batch of peanut brittle because 1. My candy thermometer died when I made the first batch -- or rather, I discovered that my candy thermometer was dead and, 2. The first batch of peanut brittle has been eaten.

Tomorrow I start on more cookies and bake Darrel's birthday cake. Nothing fancy, though. No dinosaurs or Mickey Mouses or Ninja Turtles or X-men. White cake with cool whip frosting and sliced strawberries.

Target's version of "Godiva" but with a lot more flavors and combinations. And DAMNED good. That company puts chocolate with everything including ginger! I gave a three-pack of Choxie bars to friends as thank you/happy holiday gifts and they all LOVED it. Choxie rocks!

There is a swiss chocolate bar, (the brand, I think, is just Chocolat Suisse), 72% cocoa, with flecks of cocoa bean throughout. It's heaven.

I used to agree, before I lived in Switzerland, that "the darker the better". But the Swiss don't mess about with their chocolate. I once brought a 99% cocoa bar to a dinner party and was basically laughed out of the room. That stuff is BITTER. I can go up to 92% and then I just don't really like it anymore. But the Swiss man, they can just eat anything. It was so funny in the grocery store. People would be in line with their weekly groceries: a head of brocolli, some cabbage, a bigass hunk of cheese, yummy bread, and literally 12 blocks of chocolate. And it was just totally normal as a necessary weekly staple. I swear, they are the healthiest people ever, and they eat more chocolate than anyone else in the land.

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